Orange-belted leafwalker
The orange-belted leafwalker is a slim hoverfly with a black body and a big orange-red patch on its tummy. It is a bit lazy. Instead of zooming from flower to flower, it mostly walks around on leaves.
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Fun facts
Its scientific name can be translated as lazy wood fly, because it rarely flies and likes to sit on leaves.
It has reddish eyes and spiny back legs.
There can be up to three families of young in one year, and adults fly from April to September.
Its larvae spend the winter and turn into adults in spring.
Most asked questions about Orange-belted leafwalker
?Can the orange-belted leafwalker sting?
No. It is a hoverfly and cannot sting.
?What does the orange-belted leafwalker eat?
Mostly pollen lying on leaves and honeydew from aphids.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Xylota segnis
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Syrphidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
- Also known as
- Brown-toed forest fly
Where the facts come from
- Xylota segnis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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